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Man Quotes
"The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20."
Man,
125
"See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome."
121
"When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men."
120
"Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for."
116
"It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin."
115
"Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them."
113
"Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity."
113
"Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse."
113
"Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment."
113
"There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange."
112
"We must guarantee the quality of the existence of the men and women of tomorrow."
111
"Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests."
105
"Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men."
105
"The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things."
102
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
97
"Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children."
94
"The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations."
92
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."
87
"Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die."
86
"A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world."
82
"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."
81
"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."
80
"You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win."
79
"Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared."
75
"No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true."
74
"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor."
74
"The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention."
74
"Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future."
72
"By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward."
Man,
71
"Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another."
Man,
71
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